Holy Habits: Goodness

If you went to the dictionary, you would find 41 uses of the word “good” as an adjective and 6 uses as a noun. The Bible uses the words good and goodness over 600 times, but they have three basic meanings in the Greek. One meaning is “possessing a positive quality.” This word was used when Jesus said, “‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone,’” (Luke 18:19, NASB). Only God is able to possess the pure, positive quality of goodness.

Peter didn’t call this a list of habits – but he did tell us to add these behaviors to our lives as disciples of Jesus. Developing the habit of adding goodness to our faith is a first step toward putting these powerful practices into our lives.

~ Jeff